Daniel Smith (senator)

Daniel Smith (29 October 1748-16 June 1818) was a US Senator from Tennessee from 6 October 1798 to 3 March 1799 (succeeding Andrew Jackson and preceding Joseph Anderson) and from 4 March 1805 to 31 March 1809 (succeeding William Cooke and preceding Jenkin Whiteside).

Biography
Daniel Smith was born in Stafford County, Virginia in 1748, and he worked as a surveyor. He served in the militia during Lord Dunmore's War and the American Revolutionary War, fighting at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse and the Battle of Kings Mountain. After the war's end, he moved to Sumner County, Tennessee, claiming the land grant for his military service. In 1796, he helped to write the Tennessee state constitution, and he was appointed to serve out the remainder of Andrew Jackson's term from 1798 to 1799 before being elected to his own four-year term from 1805 to 1809. He died in 1818.